Imagine the following situation. I'm a Mac user, if I open a web site with some kind of malware(Platform specific). This site/malware will use my user agent to detect what system I am using. So, if I ...

In our department internet access is only possible through a proxy which only allows internet access for certain user agent strings.
How can I change the user agent string for Google Earth so that it ...

I just got two calls from clients saying that on IE11 they don't see a list of user agents in the dev tools anymore.
I tried it myself on my machine, but I do see the list. The only two things in the ...

Forgive me if this is the wrong site to ask this question; some similar questions were closed on Web Applications Stack Exchange, so I asked this question here. If necessary, feel free to migrate this ...

When I try to Inspect Element using Chrome's Developer Console (using Right click → Inspect Element), I'm always presented with a User Agent switcher interface like below:
This is very annoying and ...

We are starting to upgrade our laptops to Windows 8 touch screen and we are finding out some of the older websites (Ones we cannot change) detect the touchscreen as a mobile device and will not load ...

I've used the dev tools to change the user agent, but that's annoying because it means you need to have dev tools open.
I've used extensions to change the user agent, but they all seem to affect all ...

Actually we have 2 sites.
Site 1: Desktop version hosted in [http://mysite1.com] , using Apache server
Site2: Mobile version of mysite.com is hosted in [http://mobilesites.com/mysite1mobile] , using ...

We were doing some investigation into user sessions on our consumer facing sites and came across something that really disturbed me.
On an average day, we have ~140k visitors to our sites who bother ...

i was trying to change the user agent in chrome to Ipad and android settings using user-Agent switcher in chrome.
Now i selected back Chrome Default but still my screen size looks like ipad. how do i ...

How can I set a user agent for the ssh program? Network requests made without a user agent are blocked on my network and I'm wondering if ssh is throwing a "Connection reset by peer" error because of ...

I would like to know how to temporary change the user agent string of Firefox so that it appears I'm using a different OS than I really am. There's an addon that changes the browser u/a but I can't ...

I have a list of user agents which visited my website. And I would like to turn them into user statics such as which browser and os are reaching the most to my website.
For Example: I have one user ...

I love using the 'User Agent Switcher' Firefox addon on most sites on my desktop PC, in order to trick websites into using the mobile versions by masquerading as an iPhone/Android user agent. I like ...

I am looking for a way to switch my user agent in Chrome.
I have tried User-Agent Switcher for Chrome with only limited success. I really want more user agents, and the ability to add new agents with ...

In Firefox 6, I use the Proxy Tool add on to spoof my user agent and platform strings as part of my effort to improve privacy.
Is there an equivalent for emails sent from Thunderbird 6? If so, how do ...

Is there a Firefox extension that prevents websites from detecting what operating system you're using?
Also, if there isn't a plugin, is it possible to write one?
I know I can disable websites from ...

A friend told me he suddenly cannot use Firefox any more, no matter what site he hits, because he gets a message saying only IE is allowed. I'm thinking this has got to be a proxy server issue.
I'm ...

I have to use a website that accepts only IE, but I don't want to use it, so I use Chrome and change user agent, so that website won't notice.
But I'm having problems with using other websites that ...

I thought it would be cool to use Mozilla's Prism to create a webapp for min.us, but drag and drop is disallowed because the site doesn't see the program as Firefox, Chrome or Safari, those of which ...

If you look at the image below, you'll see that I'm getting the iPhone version of Google on my Mac. If I refresh, it stays the same, but curiously enough, if I visit https://www.google.com (note SSL), ...